Ultra: Advisor for Ambitious Students

Hey everyone!

TL;DR: Ultra helps ambitious students achieve anything; we’re launching our college admissions advisor, which focuses on helping students become extraordinary, which is more important than the application itself.

Ask: We’d love to meet with two main categories: employers and educators (college counselors, principals, and school district leaders). We’ve already matched some very hungry and capable top 1% high school students to VC firms and YC startups as interns; we’d love to partner with more companies who are interested in building a talent pipeline here or otherwise interested in working with high schoolers. Contact us at oliver@tryultra.org

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❌ The Problem

Ambitious students are underserved. A hungry high schooler is capable of so much more than APs and creating fake non-profits to get into a college.

But the guidance is often nothing or directly negative. Schools and counseling departments are already overwhelmed, so they have to focus their advice on the low-performing students. What is possible for a high schooler has also changed so much that a lot of previously sound advice has aged out.

College remains the primary goal for ambitious high schoolers. And the best way to get in is to be shockingly impressive, which also helps later in life, too. But access to guidance on how to make yourself stand out to colleges is expensive (private college consultants) or not well packaged.

👷 Our Solution
We’ve created an AI advisor that helps students become extraordinary.

1. Firstly, we simulate the process that elite colleges use to evaluate profiles to give students an idea of what their odds are (Naviance but better).
2. Secondly, we give recommendations that students can iterate on. This pulls from a database of 3000+ opportunities, including opportunities exclusive to our platform, like high school-specific internships with venture-backed startups.
3. Finally, we have a 24/7 AI coach that calls users to check in with them and help them plan and reflect.

AI will make the top performers produce a larger and larger proportion of human work. We will help create this next generation of top performers from the most ambitious students of today.

🙏 Our Ask

We’d love to hear from you if you fall into these categories:

• Are you interested in working with or reaching the most ambitious high schoolers? We’ve got a range of partnership-led products coming up, working with startups and enterprises to help them recruit talent, get talent to use their products, and more. This could be as simple as posting opportunities to our platform and being able to recruit the best of the best at their scrappiest or creating job simulations.
• You’re in education and can help us reach school districts and counselors. We want to give our product for free to schools!
• If you’re a parent and can help us reach other parents with middle school to high school aged kids.
• And of course, if you found this as a high schooler: useultra.ai is for you.